Rogue Valley • Entered by Susie Schmidt on November 15, 2020
Post Fire Forest Monitoring
September 26, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0.5 |
| Post Admin hours | 2.25 |
| Activity Hours | 5.5 |
| Participants | 2 |
| Total Hours | 13.75 |
Key Issue: Climate Change
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Umpqua Watersheds
Landscape/area: Umpqua National Forest (986120 acres)
Short Description of Activity
Francis Eatherington took a trip to the North Umpqua National Forest to see first hand the damage caused by the Archie Creek Fire in early Sept. 2020. Francis reports lots of the highway corridor was badly burned, but there were also pockets of green. The old growth at Susan Creek survived, and it appears that the old growth forest on the other side of the Tioga bridge mostly survived. The old growth across Mott Bridge (just past Steamboat Creek) also looked good — at the trail head. Not sure how far it went.
Reflection/Evaluation
We were able to see which part of the old growth survived and it was mostly good news.
Bogus Creek campground was destroyed, also, Fall Creek Falls trailhead was devastated
but not sure how far.
Francis had the honor of one of her photos making the cover of the Oregonian Newspaper.
(see below)
Photos/Uploads
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Photo Captions
1) Photo of Old growth at Susan Creek, near Glide, Oregon
2)Map of Archie Creek Fire
3) Bogus Creek campground which was destroyed. This photo by Francis E
made the cover page of the Oregonian Oct. 4th. This fire might have been started by
powerlines.